Left to right: Ethan Kurzweil of Bessemer Venture Partners, Scott Rupp of Bitkraft Ventures, Gregory Milken of March Capital Partners, and Eric Goldberg of Crossover Technologies.
Left to right: Ethan Kurzweil of Bessemer Venture Partners, Scott Rupp of Bitkraft Ventures, Gregory Milken of March Capital Partners, and Eric Goldberg of Crossover Technologies.
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Why VCs are investing in game companies again

Institutional venture capital funds are investing in games again, just like seed investors who deal with smaller game startup investments.

We talked about this trend involving larger funds on a panel at GamesBeat Summit 2019 that included Gregory Milken, managing director of March Capital Partners; Ethan Kurzweil, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners; and Scott Rupp founding partner of Bitkraft Ventures.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.